"I don't believe that murders can be "solved." I think that this is the big lie of the mystery novel, that you should close the book and feel that the world is back in order and everything's all right. I want the reader to know that the world is not all right, and maybe we ought to do something about it."

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Source : Interview with Keith Phipps, www.avclub.com. September 19, 2001.

George Pelecanos

#Lying Quotes #Believe Quotes #Book Quotes

“It's the idea that people living close to nature tend to be noble. It's seeing all those sunsets that does it. You can't watch a sunset and then go off and set fire to your neighbor's tepee. Living close to nature is wonderful for your mental health.”
“The very best thing you can give someone is what they want.”

Source : Marshall Sylver (1997). “Passion Profit Power”, p.114, Simon and Schuster
“Men must stop being jealous of their power and generously allow freedom and responsibility to others. The reward is harmonious families and society.”
“Thus the same object may supply a practical perception to one person and a speculative one to another, or the same person may perceive it partly practically and partly speculatively.”
“Fight the tendency to become complacent and do one kind of music - that is the death of a musician.”

Source : "Conductors on Record". Book by John L. Holmes, pp. 256-261, 1988.
“There's a point you get to on the stage where you're not remembering lines but living them, and you reach this pure moment which, really, is more intense than what you can achieve in life.”
“Being ready is not what matters. What matters is winning after you get there.”
“If such love obtained in the world today as the Lord intended that it should, love of God and love of fellow men, there would be no wars, contentions, and strife among the children of men. And that there is such, is due to an indifference by men to heed the admonitions and teachings of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.”

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